Art by Mark Henson
Category Archives: Quotes
“Do not be ready before your time. There’s no knowing what symmetry is marshalling itself below this confusion. First the long attentiveness of listening must be paid. Don’t brave your way out of this husk while it serves to protect your impressionability. Let yourself be kept a while longer in these origins where you are mine alone and I am only yours. Let something sweet be made of our secret. Put not your offering into the world too soon. Let it ripen in the guardianship of your trepidation. Let this fallow time be stretched For it is in this unreadiness that beauty takes its form. Live a season longer in this holy refuge. Because soon what nectar is made of our union will be for all the world to drink, or not drink. And you will need to remember what grace was allowed only by your long staying hidden.” ~Toko-pa
Art by Christian Schloe
“Illusion is so fragile; it rarely survives questions.” ~Aniekee Tochukwu
Art photo by Logan Zillmer
“I found god in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.” ~Ntozake Shange
Art by Nela Dunato
“I am making friends with the Wind – who used to feel like an intruder rifling up my sleeves chasing debris down the tunnel She made of my street. But now I hear she’s howling for all that’s kept unfree. She whistles at gaps and rattles loose that which is inessential, raising in upward spirals things past their due, clearing the ground with her sharp, elbowing through. I am making friends with Change – who’s an agent of things not yet as they came to be. I’m making friends with the Clearing – not the eventual filling, but the pause before the hello when the Beloved picks up the other end of this phone. The moment so easy to miss – of Expectancy. The growing of something I myself must have once seeded. Yes, we are friends – the Wind and I – though she whips my hair into my mouth, slams doors and gives me a fright – but I just bundle myself well and meet her on the hill, make an offering of these leaves falling in their completeness, and let Her pull me off my feet So I may see further what is coming in on her distant, composing breezes.” ~by Dreamwork with Toko-pa
Art by Adry del Rocio Garcia Hernandez
Thank you to the amazing Toko-pa for this post.
“No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
Artwork by Juan Carlos Barquet
“I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.” ~ Melissa St. Hilaire
“Little by little, people come to understand if they are willing to pay attention to the way they feel, that you cannot look at things that make you feel terrible and create a wonderful world. And this world is full of as many creators as it is full of as many perceivers. You don’t have to wait for the entire world to figure this out for you to live a wonderful life experience.” ~Abraham Hicks
“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn’t stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one’s place in the world. To say ‘I am here.’ To say ‘I am.” ~O.R. Melling
Art by Liza Lambertini
“Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It’s the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It’s a mode of training your senses and intellect so you’re able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.” ~Rob Brezsny
Under The Blue Door 